Homeschool Curriculum Glossary (FergNus-Geography)

FergNus Services provides organizational services for homeschoolers. There are three record keeping products currently available. They are The Home Schoolers High school Journal, The Homes Schoolers Journal, and The Math Journal. The journals are “jelly proof” and “designed to document the educational progress of a single student in each of their high school years, so that these High School Journals would be their high school transcripts if they continued on to college.” First Language Lessons for The Well Trained Mind is a classical approach to teaching grammar and writing. It is designed for children as young as two. Five in … Continue reading

Frugal Beauty: Witch Hazel Makes a Great Toner

My mother had beautiful, flawless skin. Wherever she went, she was always admired for this feature. Although I wasn’t lucky enough to inherit her skin, I did inherit her beauty secrets. One product that she used in her regular beauty routine was good old witch hazel. Witch hazel is one of those things that often gets overlooked in beauty. It doesn’t come in different colors; it doesn’t have fancy packaging, and you never see it advertised. But witch hazel has been around for a long time because it works. It can often be found in either the skin care section … Continue reading

Give Yourself a Facial – Exercise

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? No, don’t look down, look straight ahead. Look at the face that is gazing back at you. For most of us, the changes are transparent unless we are comparing ourselves to pictures of when we are much younger. Our levels of fitness, age, illness, stress and dieting affect our looks, no matter how we define them. As we age, our facial muscles also lose tone and this is part of what makes us look younger or older depending on their muscle condition. There are exercises that we can do to … Continue reading

Unilever Recalls Dove(tm) Facial Cleansing Massager after Nine Reports of Minor Injuries

February 28, 2006 Release #06-098 Firm’s Recall Hotline: (800) 896-9479 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Media Contact: (301) 504-7908 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Dove(tm) SkinVitalizer – Facial Cleansing Massager There are approximately 438,000 units, and consumers have purchased about 50,000 of which of that amount. The Distributor is Unilever, of Trumbull, Conn. Hazard: The cleansing pillows on … Continue reading